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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 6002204" data-attributes="member: 6688858">I will say that for me it's not enough that 5e simply allows my play preferences. I want them to be acknowledged and supported in the text.Not because I need validation. Because...why not? Why should my playstyle have to be the ghetto one that you can pull off with the rules, but only if you already know what you're doing. Or if you ignore the DMG and ask around for help online. I can imagine a DMG that elucidated and supported a variety of different playstyles. It's a tall order, but I can see it, so I want it.My bugaboo is the 4e style encounter balancing procedure. It's not good enough for me to just present it in the text, as if it's a regular rule that should be followed, without any critical discussion. It would be easy to include it in the game in a way that didn't make me feel like they were trying to push it too hard as the default.Mike Mearls has said in the past that the purpose of encounter balancing rules is to take power away from the DM. So yes I am specifically looking to see whether in 5e they are presented like this, or if they're actually presented as an optional tool for the DM.</blockquote>